James Webb Space Telescope reveals Fomalhaut's disk in detail(skyandtelescope.org)

372 points by gmays 3 years ago | 157 comments

Sky & Telescope news article on JWST imaging Fomalhaut's debris disk in unprecedented detail, published May 8, 2023.

Images reveal exocomets around nearby stars(skyandtelescope.org)

88 points by gmays 1 year ago | 12 comments

Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas: What We Know Now(skyandtelescope.org)

85 points by bikenaga 1 year ago | 35 comments

Astronomers Find Star Is a Powerful Magnet(skyandtelescope.org)

51 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 29 comments

James Webb, Hubble space telescopes face reduction in operations(astronomy.com)

143 points by geox 1 year ago | 88 comments

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut(space.com)

118 points by consumer451 1 year ago | 89 comments

Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources(19thnews.org)

445 points by benwerd 3 months ago | 175 comments

Blog post by Ben Werdmuller linking to The 19th's story about former NOAA staff rebuilding the defunct Climate.gov resource as Climate.us using open data.

Missiles are now the biggest killer of airline passengers(wsj.com)

496 points by JumpCrisscross 1 year ago | 352 comments

Wall Street Journal article reporting that missile shootdowns have become the leading cause of airline passenger deaths; the page loaded a captcha instead.

Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon(wilsoniumite.com)

466 points by Wilsoniumite 8 months ago | 597 comments

A personal blog post revisiting the author's failed prediction of a 2025 US economic crash and arguing a crash may still be coming, using data such as FRED unemployment charts.

Americans Are Spending More Money to Drive Worse Cars(theatlantic.com)

24 points by fortran77 6 days ago | 89 comments

An Atlantic technology article by Andrew Moseman on why Americans keep paying more for gas cars instead of switching to electric vehicles despite high gas prices.

LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash(theguardian.com)

330 points by m_fayer 7 months ago | 266 comments

Guardian news article reporting that NASA safety reports show pilots warned of close calls at LaGuardia months before a deadly runway crash that killed two pilots.

A third of North America’s birds have vanished(nautil.us)

478 points by geox 3 years ago | 392 comments

Nautilus zoology article reporting that roughly a third of North America's bird population has disappeared in recent decades.